Safest Casinos

When you're playing roulette online for real money you don't want to have to worry about safety. There's nothing more frustrating than wondering if the last spin of the wheel was legit or not.

I decided to put this quick guide together to cover as much as I can about safety, security and reliability in online roulette as I could. So the next time you're betting big on an evens bet (you know, like when you stick everything you've got on red) you can do it knowing that result of the spin will be honest.

My favorite casinos for reliability and safety.

These are my personal favorite places to play roulette online. I have absolutely no worries about the reliability of the results and the safety of my money at these online casinos.

I've played at each one and can testify to their dependability.

Rank	Casino	Rating	Payment Methods	Payout Time	Links
1		Rating A+	Payment Methods	Payout Time 1-2 Days	Play Now Read Review
2		Rating A	Payment Methods	Payout Time 1-2 Days	Play Now Read Review

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What makes a roulette casino "safe"?

There are a couple of things that contribute to overall safety:

1. Game fairness — Reliable results that aren't rigged or fixed.
2. Money safety — Secure deposit and withdrawal methods.

1. Game fairness.

We've all questioned the results of games when things go our way.

• Did the dealer get suspiciously lucky after making 21 with a starting hand of 15 when we stuck on 20 in blackjack?
• Did I go for far too long without hitting any sort of win on that slot machine?
• Was it a bit unusual for the result to be red five times in a row when I was betting on black in roulette?

And in some cases, the games aren't always fair.

However, those cases of confirmed unfair games are extremely rare. Although, there have been times where an unlucky streak at some casinos has felt too unlucky to be true, but I obviously can't prove it. Instead I just don't play there any more (and I don't recommend them on this site).

Impressively, the online roulette casinos listed on this page are the ones that I've never questioned the reliability of. I can just spin the wheel and enjoy the results, rather than quietly become frustrated by the nagging thought of "is this roulette wheel fair?"

2. Money safety.

Unfortunately, online casinos are often seen in a bad light by those that are not familiar with gambling online. For example, if you mentioned online casino gambling to your Grandma you could be sure that she'd try and warn you about all the "risks", despite never even having clicked on a casino website in her life.

The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of online casinos are actually upstanding and trustworthy. In fact, I'd feel safer depositing and playing roulette online for real money at a casino like Ignition than I would buying lotto tickets from a convenience store. I've never been shortchanged by Ignition.

There are a few lesser-known casinos out there that I'd be skeptical about, so that's why I wouldn't list them on this site. As a general rule of thumb though, stick with the big companies and brands that you recognize and you'll be fine.

I've deposited and withdrawn thousands of dollars from the casinos listed here and I've not once had a problem, and nor do I expect to. If anything changes, I'll update this page.

CasinoMeister is an excellent forum made by player advocates for discussing the safety of different online casinos. It's worth browsing around if you get the chance.

The safest bet in roulette.

If you're playing European roulette, all the bets are as safe as each other.

Each and every kind of bet in European roulette has the exact same house edge of 2.70%, so it doesn't matter where or how you bet as the probability of winning or losing stays the same.

A bet like this is as equally as "safe" as a bet on red or black.

Sure, you could bet on both red and black for an almost guaranteed return, but that doesn't make it "safe". You're still losing 2.70% of that bet over the long run (on the odd occasion green rolls in and you lose both bets), so it's no "safer" than placing a straight bet on 36, even though it feels riskier to bet on less-likely outcomes.

It also doesn't matter if you're placing multiple bets either. One single bet has the same house edge as a bunch of random bets all over the table. So even if you have absolutely no strategy you're not actually making any mistakes or worsening your odds of winning.

Tip: If you want to place a bet with the highest probability of success, then place an even-money bet (e.g. red/black, even/odd or high/low). These all come in 48.6% of the time.

The only "unsafe" bet is the five number bet in American roulette.

This is the 5-number bet. It can only be placed in American Roulette.

Betting on 0, 00, 1, 2, 3 in American roulette has the worst house edge of any type of bet in roulette of 7.89%. This is 1.5x worse than any other bet in American roulette and 3x worse than any bet in European roulette.

So overall, if you want to place the safest bets in roulette, just play European roulette (or French roulette) and bet wherever you like. Avoid the games with higher house edges like American roulette (5.26%) or Mini roulette (7.69%).

How do you know if a roulette wheel is safe?

You don't. Not from just looking at it or from having a few spins anyway.

And that's why it can be scary to play at an online casino. But at the same time, how can you be sure that the roulette wheel at your local casino isn't rigged in some way? How do you know that next week's lotto draw is 100% fair?

Again, you don't. But you can be sure that if the results weren't 100% fair you would hear about it.

It's the same thing for the online casinos. The big sites like Ignition Casino service thousands of players, so if the results were questionable you could be sure that they would be investigated. And it's not like it would be hard to check either; just keep spinning the wheel and track the results to see if they line up with the mathematical probability of roulette results.

So as it is in life, you can't really be sure about anything. However, at the big online casinos I'm so confident that they're fair and trustworthy I'd bet money on it. (Pun intended)

Test for yourself.

If you get really bored you could just track the results yourself and see if they line up with the expected results.

For example, lets say you're spinning a European roulette wheel and want to track the number of times red/black appears. In a perfect world, over 37 spins you would expect to see black 18 times, red 18 times, and green 1 time.

Probability isn't perfect though, so you'd have to do hundreds of thousands of trials to obtain a reliable trend. But on average, your results should look like this:

How many trials/spins would allow for accurate results? I'm not sure exactly, but we're talking thousands before the results converged on the expected results. It's connected to standard deviation.

Useful links and further reading.

• eCogra – An agency that performs testing and certification for the largest online gambling operations. They test things like RNGs and the RTP of games.
• Gaming Laboratories International – Another game payout testing service. Not as popular as eCogra, but has been used in the past by online casinos like 888.
• Transport Layer Security — All reliable gambling websites use this for encrypting the data sent between their webservers and your computer. It puts the "s" in to "https".